Rust-preventing mixture for metals



UNITED STATES PATENTTOFFIICE.

GEORGE, s. MORGAN, 0F TOLEDO, 01110, ASSIG-NOR TO EDGAR e; BEER, or DETROIT,

. MICHIGAN. 1

BUST-PREVENTING MIXTURE IEOIR METALS.

1,364,134. No Drawing.

To all whom it maipconcem:

Be-it known that I, GEORGE S. MonoAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have made an invention appertaining to Rust-Preventing a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make ticularly provides'a means to protect mafrom rusting when the same is chine parts exposed to moisture or when subjected to the weather.

The invention may be contained in mixtures composed of a number of similar or equivalent ingredients and 'the amounts thereof may be varied to' produce different results.

I have selected and willv describe one of v the mixtures containing the invention andshall indicate some of the equivalentsthat may be substituted in lieu of the ingredients contained in the mixture described hereinafter.

In the preferred ing my invention I form a mixture of one part of lit'harge .(PbO) and two parts of animal or vegetable fatty acids, such as red Specification of Letters Patent.

Mixture for Metals, and I do hereby declare the following to be manganese,

form of mixture contain- Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Application filed February 16, 1920. Serial No. 359,039.

oil or oleic acid. These are thoroughly mixed together and then to this is added sixty to two hundred parts of parafiin oil, the amount depending on the viscosity desired. The'mixture of the fatty acid and litharg'e is preferably mixed cold in onetenth (T of the paraffin oil. The remainingnine-tenths. of the paraffin oil is then heated to about 180 Fahrenheit and the second mixture, namely, the mixture of the fatty acid and litharge and one-tenth parafiin oil, is slowly added to the remaining hot parafiin oil while it is being agitated. This last mixture is then heated to 230 Fahrenheit while being agitated.

In place of litharge a number of metal oxids that form water insoluble soaps with fatty acids may be used, such as oxids of copper, calcium, aluminum, etc. In, place of oleic acid, fatty acids of soyabean oil, linseed oil orcotton seed oil may be used. The surfaces of -for metals consisting of one part of litharge,

two parts of fatty acids and sixty to two hundred parts of paraffin oil.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this specification.

GEORGE s. MORGAN.

I he metal to be protectedfrom the weather and-moisture are coveredwith the mixture as by spraying or dip- 

